poetry Featured Poetry: Her Mother's Call In the interim between one life and another, a cat meets with her goddess to shed her regrets before moving on to the next.
metawriting Featured November 2020 Update A quick update on the state of your humble writer who hasn't been writing very much lately.
nerdy talk Uncle Mikey Talks Nerdy about Building a PC Fiction is eluding me. But I apparently have a lot to say about the process of building a PC!
about Featured [The Real World] Where I'm At Some thoughts about why I'm a little bit stuck right now.
acheson city Featured [Acheson City] An unexpected door Something new that began with a blank-page exercise and is apparently going...somewhere...
Newer York Featured [Newer York, 145YJ] Forget me not? A small vignette, set on the Outbound Journey of the generation ship _Dream of Spring_, on its way to TRAPPIST-1...
Newer York Featured [Newer York, 527AS] The Case of the Kid in the Park, Part 3 A stabbed teen; cloned IDs; a handful of clues; all in a place that rarely sees murder!
Newer York Featured [Newer York] A snowball in hell A small-fic in response to a challenge prompt of "Winter"
metawriting Featured [Meta] Random News An update on the state of the Mikey, or at least, his writing!
Newer York Featured [Newer York, 527AS] The Case of the Kid in the Park, Part 2 A stabbed teen; cloned IDs; a handful of clues; all in a place that rarely sees murder!
Newer York Featured [Newer York, 527AS] The Case of the Kid in the Park, Part 1 The prompt for this story is courtesy my friend Quin Overland, although I suspect I've interpreted it differently than she intended! The main character is someone who will figure prominently in the novel I started as part of NaNoWriMo, and now I get to write a bit of backstory for her!
nanowrimo Featured [Meta] I WIN! As of 2340 this evening: 50,377 words! This meets the #NaNoWriMo2019 threshold, and while I know the book itself has a ways to go, I'm damned pleased with myself!
nanowrimo [Meta] NaNoWriMo Days 24-26 Writing time has been a little weird the last few days, but I'm still riding at 45,505 words, so still on track to "win" NaNo. This novel will definitely be longer than 50kwords, and I'm looking forward to seeing how much longer.
nanowrimo [Meta] NaNoWriMo Day 23 Added 1,676 words, bringing me to 41,462. I feel good about the numbers, but the writing was a slog, in part because I'm trying to develop two additional POV characters
nanowrimo [Meta] NaNoWriMo Day 22 Another 2,079 words today, which means I will surpass 40kwords tomorrow. Today's scene fought me a bit, but produced a couple of surprising reactions from my characters! I think I know where this is ultimately going to. EXCITING!
nanowrimo [Meta] NaNoWriMo Day 21 Another 1,714 words tonight, 37,708 total, and a chapter that doesn't want to end. In general, chapter length is proving very uneven, and I need to decide what, if anything I want to do about that.
[Meta] NaNoWriMo Days 19 & 20 Only 871 words on Tuesday, but 1796 today, bringing me to 35,993. I'm coming out of transitional material and back around to actual plot, finally.
nanowrimo [Meta] NaNoWriMo Day 17 & 18 Another 1,389 today, and about 1,440 yesterday, for a total of 33,326. Daily pace is behind, but overall I'm on track still. Click through for deets.
nanowrimo [Meta] NaNoWriMo Days 15 & 16 Got 1,168 words in Friday, and 2,013 in today, for a total of 30,497 so far. Click through to read some thoughts about describing characters.
nanowrimo [Meta] NaNoWriMo Day 14 Another 2,248 words added, bringing me to 27,316. Some interesting developments tonight. Body count: 4! Read more...
nanowrimo [Meta] NaNoWriMo Day 13 Managed 1,324 words, which gets me past the half-way mark for #NaNoWriMo goals at 25,068 words! Plots are thickening, murders are multiplying. I like the direction things are going and I think I even know where they're going to wind up!
nanowrimo [Meta] NaNoWriMo Day 12 Only 1,075 words today—about half a new chapter—but 23,744 overall, well ahead of the curve.
nanowrimo [Meta] NaNoWriMo Day 11 Today brought me 2,589 shiny new words, in two chunks, for a total of 22,669. One scene I'm REALLY happy with but may not be able to keep!
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